The most definitive recent study of the 1986 disaster puts the Chernobyl death toll at 985,000. The accident irradiated a remote rural area. The nearest city, Kiev, is 80 kilometers away.
Heavy radioactive fallout spread from Chernobyl blanketed all of Europe within a matter of days. It covered an area far larger than the United States. Fallout did hit the jet stream and then the coast of California, thousands of miles away, within ten days. It then carried all the way across the northern tier of the United States.
San Luis Obispo is some ten miles directly downwind from Diablo Canyon. The region around San Onofre has become heavily sub-urbanized.
Two huge atomic reactors at San Onofre and two at Diablo Canyon are not designed to withstand powerful shocks. All four are extremely close to major faults.
All four reactors are located relatively low to the coast... and vulnerable to tsunamis.
Japan's Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire US | NukeFree.org
